From Wizardry to Fatherhood! Rupert Grint's Best Quotes About His Daughter

Daddy duty! Rupert Grint has found that parenthood has completely changed his perspective on life.

“It was something I never really had much of an idea of, that kind of love. It’s a very different love,” the Harry Potter star told ComicBook.com in January 2021.

Grint and Georgia Groome, who were first linked in 2011, confirmed in April 2020 that they were expecting their first child together. Daughter Wednesday G. Grint was born one month later.

“Rupert Grint and Georgia Groome are delighted to confirm the birth of their baby girl,” the couple’s rep told Us Weekly in May 2020. “We would please ask that you respect their privacy at this very special time.”

The proud parents took inspiration from The Addams Family, and Christina Ricci’s precocious character, when it came to choosing a moniker for their little girl.

“[I’ve] just always loved the name,” Grint said during a March 2022 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, calling Wednesday a “strong” and “memorable” name. “We love the idea of an initial like Samuel L. Jackson and Jamie Foxx [have]. Kind of speaking the initial, so she’s Wednesday G. Grint.”

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The Servant actor and the Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging star have primarily raised their little one out of the spotlight, but she is already aware of her dad’s wizarding past.

“I’ve already started showing her the trailers,” Grint told Jimmy Fallon in 2022. “She has a wand and a Pez dispenser with my head on it. We don’t feed her Pez, but she has [the dispenser].”

The England native even offered a sweet update on his little girl’s milestones at the time. “She’s kind of talking and doing things because for so long babies just don’t do anything,” he gushed. “She’s speaking, she’s talking, she’s got opinions. She says ‘Dada.’ She says ‘Mama.’ It was kind of at the same time.”

Grint, who’s described Groome as his “best friend,” has also been candid about becoming a first-time parent in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.

“Yeah, it’s been tough,” he previously told Glamour in January 2021. “It’s a time when you want as much support as you can get from your family and your friends; it’s a very isolating thing, this lockdown, so we really have kind of been on our own.”

He added: “But there’s positives with that. It’s been great to work everything out for ourselves, without so many opinions. We’ve really bonded with Wednesday. It’s been intense, but great.”

Scroll below for more of Grint’s sweetest parenting quotes through the years:

“She's kind of princess crazy, as well. She's struggling a little bit with adjusting to U.K. life. She spent most of her time in America so she's missing some cultural things,” Grint said during a 2023 appearance on Fallon’s late-night talk show, noting Wednesday misses Philadelphia, where he shot Servant. “She does love Philly. She loves hoagies, she loves water ice. And I mean the big one is Target. She is obsessed with Target.”

He added: “She'd choose that over going to the park, or zoo. But she loves going to different Targets and seeing how the layout is kind of slightly different. Sometimes she doesn't buy anything, she just wants to kind of browse.”

Wednesday — who enjoys wandering in both the toy and lip balm aisles of the superstore — also has a miniature Target playset in the family’s house.

As Wednesday has become more vocal, she’s taken to imitating words her parents say — including Grint’s Servant swear words.

“My character says the F-word a lot and now she just says it whenever she’s excited,” he revealed on The Tonight Show. “We were at the toy store today, and she was just walking around dropping it. … We find it hilarious, so it’s kind of encouraging it.”

“I struggle with that, being a dad. Had a bit of an identity crisis. I don't know, do I change the way I dress now?’” Grint told Esquire in a profile, noting he was “terrified” the first night they brought Wednesday home from the hospital. “You can't sleep at all, just constantly checking that she's breathing. Sleeping, in general, for me, is something I've really struggled with. I think as a kid, people always said, ‘They died in their sleep,’ so I always thought sleep was a really dangerous, dangerous thing.”

He added:  [It’s] that thing that you'd do anything to get your kid back. [Parenthood] really helped me understand that. I guess I already had some concept of it, obviously, but I think having a kid of your own really nails that down.”

"I feel like I’ve changed as a person for sure,” Grint told Glamour, noting he stopped smoking cigarettes after Wednesday’s arrival. “It kind of happened overnight, lifestyle-wise. I stopped smoking straight away. I’ve started sleeping so much better — I used to be a horrific insomniac, now I’m sleeping.”

The Charlie Countryman star joined Instagram in November 2020, sharing a selfie of himself holding his then-newborn daughter. His post quickly beat a world record as he became the fastest account to receive one million followers. “I think Wednesday actually broke the internet, personally. She gets the credit,” he later joked to Entertainment Tonight.

The Tomorrow War actor found his Servant character helped him get into the mindset of a father. “The grief, what it means to lose a child, is kind of unimaginable and kind of hones in on that you would do anything to get your child back,” Grint told ComicBook.com. “So yeah, it’s definitely helped in some ways.”

The Sick Note alum told ET in December 2021 that fatherhood has “definitely changed” his outlook on life. He said, “[Filming Servant] is a weird place to be, especially when Wednesday first came. I remember I brought her to the set this season. She thought she was at Sesame Street, which was very far away from Sesame Street. But yeah, it's really interesting.”